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Parts of the Midwest are experiencing thunderstorms, hail and hurricane force winds, with the severe weather already having destroyed parts of a town in Minnesota. Also, funerals are beginning to be held in Uvalde, Texas as communities call for gun reform after dozens of people were killed and injured in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener.
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Visitors posted that a man disguised himself as an elderly lady in a wheelchair, then stood up and smeared cream cake over the painting, which is protected behind bulletproof glass.
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The legislation, expected to be enacted this fall, would make it “illegal to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada,” the prime minister said.
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“It’s not just disinformation,” Ukraine’s Detroit-born former health minister tells CBS News. “It actually has real-life consequences.”
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National average gas prices reached a new record high on Memorial Day at over $4.61 per gallon. In order to budget for higher prices at the pump, many Americans are cutting back on other spending. Bank of America Institute’s senior economist David Tinsley explains the relationship between gas prices and consumer spending and which groups are making the biggest cutbacks.
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Rescuers searching a mountainside in Nepal have recovered the bodies of 21 of the 22 people who were onboard a plane that crashed a day earlier.
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This is the earliest a Category 2 storm has made landfall along Mexico’s Pacific Coast.
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CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook gave the keynote address to Harvard’s School of Public Health graduates who finished their studies during the pandemic. He told graduates that no matter what credentials they hold, kindness matters most: “Empathy is your superpower.”
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed ditching the requirement to use the metric system. CBS News contributor Simon Bates has more in this edition of “London Calling.”
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In a speech at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day 2022, President Biden paid tribute to those who “dared all, risked all, and gave all to preserve and defend an idea unlike any other in human history: the idea of the United States of America.” Watch his remarks.
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